Soil Algae: Morphology, Ecology and Biotechnological Applications
About this ebook
Algae are ubiquitous and occur in almost all terrestrial environments and in soil, they majorly belong to the member of Chlorophycophyta, Cyanochloronta, Rhodophycophyta Euglenophycophyta, and Chrysophycophyta. The role of soil algae as fertilizer and for reclaiming the saline soil is well studied. Algae in soil benefits agricultural production, increase water retention capacity, reduced soil erosion, reduction of nutrient runoff, and provides nutrients. The added algae increase soil biodiversity, organic biomass, and the total humus content of the soil, beneficial for healthy soil. These soil algae diversities also have many biotechnological and industrial importance.
This book is of interest and use to researchers of phycology, molecular biology, agriculture and biotechnology and also to scientists working on soil biology, agronomy and crop research. Also, the book serves as reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of microbiology, agriculture, molecular biology, and biotechnology. Researchers from biotechnological and biofertilizers companies will also find this to be a useful read.
About the author
Dr Arti Mishra: Assistant Professor at Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India. She is working in the area of, environmental microbiology, phycology, bio-remediation, plant microbe Interaction. Dr Mishra has a number of research papers and review articles to her credit in the journals of international repute. In addition, Dr Mishra has been recognized as a member of The Biotech Research Society (BRSI), India. She has been awarded Dr D S Kothari postdoctoral fellowship from UGC in 2016 for postdoctoral research work at School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. In 2023, she has received Carl Trygger fellowship for doing postdoctoral work at Umeå Plant Science Center, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Dr. Mishra received her PhD in Botany from APS University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India and MS in Biology from Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr. Ajit Varma completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from Allahabad University. He was former Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Presently, he is Emeritus Professor at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology; Former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation, and Former Vice Chairman, Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published more than 314 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editor in Chief of Soil Biology Series, Springer Verlag Germany. Dr. Varma is the Fellow of Alexander-von-Humboldt Society, Germany, elected Fellow of National Academy Agricultural Sciences and Fellow of Microbiology Society of India.
